"Coda Parts Using Coda Arts"
A Coda retreat to explore the various parts of our identity through the use of Arts
Retreat Dates: October 15-17, 2010
Location: Helen Young’s House, Arizona
We will explore Double Pride’s “Coda Parts” model in order to describe the internalized bicultural experiences of a Coda and their Deaf/Hearing identities.
Through art and discussion we will explore the internal and external landscapes of your worlds. We will honor our journey traveled to find the “Best of Both our Worlds”.
We will find expression through art: collage, clay, drawing/painting, quilting, drama, writing, and film, as possible ways to create a multimedia experience that expresses the fullness of who we are now as well as who we want to become. Please join our mailing list in order to receive our email newsletter which will keep you updated about our Coda Retreats and more! Thanks for all your support!
Registration, Only $250:
SPACE IS LIMITED! Register by September 1st and get $30 OFF! $220 Requirement: Must have attended at least one CODA Conference Information and Registration: millie@doublepride.com
"Codas and Deaf Siblings Come Together"
A Retreat for Codas and their Deaf Siblings at CSD Fremont
Retreat Dates: July 19-21, 2010
Location: California School for the Deaf, Fremont
Due to a scheduling conflict with the International Deaf Expo in Las Vegas during the same week, we need to postpone the "Coda and Deaf Siblings Come Together Retreat" to a better time of year. Please join our mailing list in order to receive our email newsletter which will keep you updated about future dates for our Coda and Deaf Siblings Retreat to come! Thanks for all your support!
Codas, have you wanted to share your family experiences with your deaf sibling? Well now you can! Join us for a retreat for Codas and their deaf siblings from families with Deaf parents. This will be a great opportunity to explore and celebrate our unique sibling bonds as Coda-Deaf siblings in our Deaf families.
If you have any questions or comments please contact us! phone: (510) 528-9869 or email: millie@doublepride.com
Deaf and hearing siblings with deaf parents have a unique experience straddling both the hearing and Deaf worlds. The sibling relationship is a powerful peer influence in childhood as well as adulthood. Often deaf and hearing siblings attend different schools, have different communities and different cultures under the same roof. This can create richness as well as tension in the sibling relationship. This retreat will explore this sibling experience in order to gain deeper understanding ?and wisdom to pass onto the Deaf and Coda communities.
This workshop will be presented by Deaf-Coda siblings in ASL (interpreters provided) and will include large and small group discussions.
Retreat Goals:
1. To provide an opportunity to share and discuss our sibling experiences in order to honor our family relationships and our lives in both the hearing and Deaf communities.
2. To explore our adult roles as deaf parents and Coda parents as well as our roles as aunts and uncles with our Deaf, Koda, and hearing nieces and nephews.
3. To investigate our multi generational pattern of Deaf-Hearing-Codas that continues in our families often due to the strong genetics of deafness that we have in our families.
4. To consider how to share our experiences with future generations of Coda-Deaf Siblings growing up with Deaf parents
Coordinator Biographies:
Lisa Jacobs, M. Ed is a deaf sibling of an OhCoda (Only Hearing Child of Deaf Adults). 18 months apart in age, Lisa is also 4th generation deaf in her family. When her koda daughter was younger; she served as a core member of the Maryland KODA (Kids of Deaf Adults) chapter for five years. She facilitated the identification of practical strategies for developing a strong home-school partnership with Deaf parents and a positive learning environment for koda students which resulted in material development for deaf parents and school professionals about kodas at schools and how to have an eff ective home and school partnership. Lisa is currently the director of Gallaudet University Mid-Atlantic Regional Center. Sheila Jacobs, MFT is the only hearing person in a large Deaf family. Her parents, sister, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and some cousins are deaf. Her studies in intercultural communication and cross-cultural psychology educated her extensively about issues deaf and other multi-cultural groups face daily. She worked for fifteen years as a freelance interpreter earning a national reputation, and taught ASL and interpreting for ten years at Vista College in Berkeley, California. She is now a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in deaf/hearing, multicultural, and couples counseling. Blending her life experiences as a Coda (child of deaf adults), with her experiences as a counselor and as an interpreter, Sheila founded the innovative company Double Pride, and launched DP at Home, DP at Work and DP at School. Julia Petersen, MA is a 3rd generation culturally Deaf individual and has both personal and professional experiences with KODAs/CODAs. Julia is grateful for her rich bi-lingual and bi-cultural background growing up with a hearing sibling and deaf parents. With her Deaf husband, she enjoys parenting their 10 year old and 12 year old kodas. Approximately 30% of her clients’ parents do not speak English, therefore both sign language and the family’s native language interpreters are provided in therapy. She also facilitates a support group for parents of D/HH children in an early intervention program and gives presentations nationally. Julia has been a Mental Health Therapist for the past 20 years. Laura Petersen, M. Ed is an organizational development consultant, a certified k-12 educator and an ASL interpreter. She enjoys applying her expertise and degrees in Psychology and Education to finding creative solutions to corporate challenges as well as more personal issues. Laura appreciates the perspective she gains from both her Deaf family and her current hearing family, consisting of her husband and two kids ages 9 & 7. She brings her bi-lingual/bi-cultural sensitivity to many aspects of her life. Laura is co-owner of The Art of Work, helping individuals, teams, and families achieve excellence.
Mother Father Deaf Day
“Bridging Deaf/Hearing Worlds in Our Families”
Date: April 24, 2010
Location: California School for the Deaf, Fremont; Little Theatre
Bay Area Codas invite you to share this Community Event To Honor our Deaf Parents, CODA, Inc. (Children of Deaf Parents) has established an annual tradition of celebration on the last weekend of April.
For: Deaf Parents, Coda/Koda children, professionals, interpreters, teachers, mental health workers, social workers in the bi-lingual and bi-cultural experiences of integrating Deaf and Hearing worlds. RID CEU units are available. (separate sign up and $20 Fee at the site).
Cost: PRE-REGISTRATION RATES, $15/adult; $8 children Pre-registration (by April 21st) contact: Millie Stansfield, gdmamillie@yahoo.com
PAY AT THE DOOR RATES, Adult (full day) rate: $20 Adult (half day) rate: $10 Children (full day or half day) rate: $10
A Baffling Question: Why Isn't Marlee Matlin's 'My Deaf Family' On Television?
April 8, 2010
by Linda Holmes, NPR Monkey See Blog
It took me a couple of weeks to get around to watching the ten-minute pilot episode of Marlee Matlin's new show, My Deaf Family. As she recently explained to The Los Angeles Times (Click for article), Matlin shopped around the idea of a reality show about a hearing/deaf family, and while networks purported to think it was a great idea, they weren't sure they could pull it off logistically, because of the signing and the subtitles. Undeterred, she decided on a direct approach and posted it on YouTube.
If, indeed, the concern was that people couldn't handle the subtitles, it's nonsense. Absolute, utter nonsense. If people will watch all the subtitled Korean on Lost, and all the subtitled Na'vi in Avatar, they will do perfectly fine with the subtitled signing in My Deaf Family. Furthermore, as Matlin points out in the L.A. Times piece, people who watch reality shows get subtitled dialogue all the time, when people are too quiet, mumbly, drowned out or drunk to be understood.
Meanwhile, you'd get a show that is, based on the pilot, exactly what I like in unscripted shows: a window into everyday details of something a lot of people aren't familiar with.
This is why job shows like Deadliest Catch can work: people tend to take an interest in unfamiliar details about how other people live, and those details do not, contrary to popular belief, need to be salacious. If everybody knew what it was like to work on a crab boat, nobody would watch Deadliest Catch. But the second I saw the mom in My Deaf Family ordering pizza via video relay -- something I simply had absolutely no idea people did -- I thought, "This is a show that I would watch." Click for full article...
Double Pride Assists With Marlee Matlin’s Reality Show “My Deaf Family”
April 12, 2010
The short pilot "My Deaf Family" has just recently made its way to You Tube (totaling over 75,000 the first week, and running over 10,000 views a day) and record views are predicted over the upcoming month. It has been written up in numerous publications including the LA Times, Entertainment News and Google News.
Double Pride's contributions include: assistance in casting the Firl Family from the Bay Area, serving as liaison between the production team and the family, offering subject matter expertise regarding the psychology of families with deaf and hearing members, as well as on set interpreting, script consulting, assistance on post production captioning and editing, and consulting on television network and Internet marketing strategies.
